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The Online Events Archive provides access to hundreds of online sessions covering critical topics in learning and development. This is where you will learn from the learning industry’s leading thinkers and practitioners about best practices, tips and tricks, and proven strategies in the learning technologies space.
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Give Learners What They Really Want in Online Learning
Rapidly pivoting to live online learning sessions early in the pandemic was a great solution for many organizations. Now we need to move toward turning these virtual sessions into great learning interventions. To do so, we need to know what our attendees need and how they feel during our sessions. Using recent research, this interactive session highlights how we can design and deliver virtual classroom training to ensure engagement, learning, and performance at work. We look at themes from the research, including learner preferences, webcam use, barriers to virtual learning, and what enhances virtual learning. We will also make recommendations…
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Get Results: How to Assemble and Align a Strategic Team
Learning leaders must constantly consider their team structure as they balance three functions: meeting their organization’s strategic needs; delivering results efficiently; and creating a meaningful role and career path for the L&D professionals on their teams. The best pathways are highly dependent on an organization’s strategy and situation. Hearing from other learning leaders about their decisions and what’s actually working (and what’s not) can be helpful in charting a path forward. Our panel of learning leaders will describe the structure of the L&D function(s) in their organizations. Each panelist leads the L&D function or a significant team in the overall…
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LeaderChat: Hadiya Nuriddin on How Leaders Use Stories
Forthis month’s LeaderChat we welcome Hadiya Nurridin of Duets Learning for adiscussion examining how learning leaders use stories to inform, communicate,connect, and lead in their organizations.
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AR/MR/VR: You Could … But Should You?
Augmented reality. Mixed reality. Virtual reality. We can come up with countless reasons—ranging from case studies to research and Gartner hype cycles—that these are much more than mere fads. Holding equal, if not greater importance, would be the need to first ask ourselves if a given learning initiative can, and should, be supplemented by AR/MR/VR. Is there a clear learning need, or are we succumbing to Shiny Object Syndrome? Are we electing to use these technologies to fill an existing gap no other approach can fill, or are we mistakenly making major revisions solely for the sake of adding a…
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Monthy MeetUp: Shawn Rosler on Using Podcasts for Performance
Forthis month’s Monthly Meetup, we welcome Shawn Rosler of Office Practicum, whojoins us with a presentation on “Podcasts for Performance: Leveraging a Pastimefor Your Learners.” He’ll share why podcasts are a cost-efficient,time-efficient platform to share knowledge, empowering SMEs to connect directlywith learners as “guests” on your training-focused podcasts.
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Expand your L&D Solutions with AR Learning Experiences
Augmented reality (AR) is continuing to emerge. Nearly everyone’s mobile device now supports AR content. AR enhances the end users’ view with additional content and experiences. How can this be useful for learning? How can we build learning content within the learner’s real-world view, or guide and support the learner’s performance via AR? What does it take to get started? In this session you will learn how AR can enhance and support learning. We will cover what you need to know when you start designing and developing AR learning experiences, and explore tools and resources you can use to quickly…
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Failure is an Option: Using Lean to Course Correct Your Course Development
Instructional designers are tireless optimists; we design through a combination of learning theory, practical expertise, big dreams, and oodles of pilot testing for the glory of continuous improvement. But sometimes the process doesn’t work for where you work; deadlines are tight, SMEs are MIA, pivots are required, scope changes like Mercury in retrograde. This session will explore how Lean Six Sigma methodologies and techniques help us mitigate project let-downs and stressors, improving the way we work while holding true to the ID best practices we all know and love. You’ll see how Lean Six Sigma techniques help us mitigate project…
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Using Agile to Deliver eLearning
Many L&D teams today are being asked for more visibility into the development process and project management of learning products. They are being asked to account for their development time and to display ROI on the learning products created. Additionally, there is the challenge of efficiently engaging with SMEs. This demand for increased transparency and communication is best answered by leveraging Agile processes. In this session, you will learn how the small L&D team at dRofus adopted Agile principles of working in sprints, creating a backlog of learning products, and utilized an online Kanban board to provide more visibility into…
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Out of One, Many: Creating Instructional Media Derivatives from Video
Many designers create video-based content without considering how to leverage a video into other forms of media. Your audience will consume your message in various formats based upon where they are in the learning journey, their preferred method for consuming instructional content, and the learning environment. What if there was a proven workflow that could plan video, audio, image, and text-based outputs that aligned to your audience’s needs? In this session, you will learn how to plan your video production to produce various media derivatives that will support the different stages of a learning journey. You’ll experience how to take…
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Give the Tools to your SMEs and Fast Track your Process!
In a perfect world, every organization has the time and resources to create world-class training to support every new business initiative, change, or great idea. But in the real world, we don’t always have this luxury. Is there a way to reduce the amount of time we spend on design and development on each project? Does every business initiative require training? Which ones should we spend our time on? Can anyone create learning materials? In this session, you’ll learn from how I created some simple processes and tools that enabled my SMEs and stakeholders to design, and in some cases,…